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From:
Timothy S. Nelson
Date:
March 1, 2009 16:55
Subject:
Re: pod variables?
Message ID:
alpine.LRH.1.10.0903021153410.3222@gwalcmai.nelson.org.au
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Jon Lang wrote:
>> Under the section about twigils in S02, "$=var" is described as a "pod
>> variable". I'm not finding any other references to pod variables;
>> what are tey, and how are they used? (In particular, I'm wondering if
>> they're a fossil; if they aren't, I'd expect further information about
>> them to be in S26.)
>
> The principle of pod variables as I recall them discussed a few years ago is
> that it is a way for code to programmatically access its own documentation,
> such as, for example code introspecting a routine could also print out the
> documentation for that routine, I suppose. Whatever it was, it sounded
> useful at the time. -- Darren Duncan
To further clarify, I put this exact question to Larry, and he
basically said that the clarification of POD variables will happen as Damian
continues work on S26-Documentation.
:)
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